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Æthelbald (died 860) was King of Wessex from 855 or 858 to 860. He was the second of five sons of King Æthelwulf.In 850, Æthelbald's elder brother Æthelstan defeated the Vikings in the first recorded sea battle in English history, but he is not recorded afterwards and probably died in the early 850s.
Æthelberht (Old English: [ˈæðelberˠxt]; also spelled Ethelbert or Aethelberht) was the King of Wessex from 860 until his death in 865. He was the third son of King Æthelwulf by his first wife, Osburh. Æthelberht was first recorded as a witness to a charter in 854. The following year Æthelwulf went on pilgrimage to Rome and appointed his ...
Æthelbald refused to give up his throne when his father returned to England in 856, and continued as king either of west Wessex or the whole territory until his father died in 858. Æthelbald then married his father's widow, Judith , a great-granddaughter of Charlemagne , to the scandal of later monastic chroniclers, and ruled Wessex until his ...
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[3] According to Ingulf, an 11th-century Benedictine abbot, Beornred was regarded as a tyrant, while Roger of Wendover, a thirteenth-century chronicler, states that he was an unjust king and that the people of Mercia rose in rebellion against him. [1] [4] He was possibly involved in his predecessor's death. [5]
During Ælfwald's rule, East Anglia enjoyed sustained growth and stability, albeit under the senior authority of the Mercian king Æthelbald, [3] who ruled his kingdom from 716 until he was murdered by his own men in 757. [4] Ælfwald was the last of the Wuffingas dynasty, who had ruled East Anglia since the sixth century. [5]
On Æthelwulf's death in 858, he left Wessex to Æthelbald and Kent to Æthelberht, but Æthelbald's death only two years later led to the reunification of the kingdom. In the 20th century, Æthelwulf's reputation among historians was poor: he was seen as excessively pious and impractical, and his pilgrimage was viewed as a desertion of his duties.
12th King of Wessex 674: Cædwalla c. 659 –689 14th King of Wessex 685–688: Mul d. 687 King of Kent 686–687: Cenred? Cuthred b. before 639–661: Osmod? Æscwine d. 676 12th King of Wessex 674–676: Ingild? Ine c. 670 –after 726 15th King of Wessex 689–726: Æthelburg? Æthelheard d. 740? 16th King of Wessex 726–740: Cuthred d. 756 ...